Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's 21 amendments to the Bill, which contains taxation proposals for 2018-19, were approved by voice vote, and so was the Appropriation Bill which detailed spending plans for 99 government ministries and departments.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed his predecessor P Chidambaram for being a "know-all" living under false "illusion", and said the economy was in the hands of a "terrible doctor" under 10-year rule of UPA which pushed it to being in the fragile five economies in the world.

The company that inaugurated its assembly plant on the outskirts of Bengaluru last year plans to assemble more than half a dozen of its products here to compete more aggressively with German luxury carmakers.

Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.